ispell and localisation

From:

Barutan Seijin

Subject:

ispell and localisation

Date:

Fri, 31 Mar 2006 22:34:18 -0500

User-agent:

Gnus/5.110004 (No Gnus v0.4) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux)

I have Japanese set for my environment, but I want to spell check
English. (The concept of checking spelling in Japanese doesn't even
make sense). Anyway, ispell checks the locale before choosing a
dictionary, but when it discovers I have a Japanese setup, it quits.
Is there a way to invoke ispell so that instead of quitting it'll use an
English dictionary?
As it is now, hitting M-$ gives me this:
Loading newcomment...done
Auto-saving...done
Mark set
Quit
Auto-saving...done
Loading ispell...done
Starting new Ispell process...
ispell-init-process: Error: No word lists can be found for the language "ja_JP".
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